Author: JerryZ

The last concert of the season for the Phil closed with roars of applause and approval for Esa-Pekka Salonen‘s Piano Concerto, given its premiere last year by the New York…

The music year in Los Angeles is getting off to a good start with an exciting mini-festival by the L.A. Phil, led by David Robertson. What’s even nicer is that…

Our revivified Monday Evening Concerts opened its second season of its new life last night. This was an evening of MEC as we had been hoping for. The program gave…

It’s a pretty short list when you try to name the persons who have really affected and changed musical life in Los Angeles. There are many who brought fame to…

In this final piece on most prominent of the organizations that do noticeable programming of contemporary or near-contemporary music, I’ll deal with a variety of activities around the city. Perhaps…

The L.A. Philharmonic’s New Music Group opened its season last night with a concert of three works by Kaija Saariaho, all written in the early 90s. This concert was to…

Close to 300 of us traveled to Zipper Auditorium last night to hear Gloria Cheng open the new Piano Spheres season. It was a great concert. With the exception of…

Over and above its contributions in teaching the performing arts, The Colburn School gives Los Angeles a good, small concert hall, Zipper Concert Hall, just across the street from Walt…

During the summer the music programming stays pretty much with the established and conventional, if not with the outright light and popular. I missed about the only performance of contemporary…

The Sunday evening concert explored the range of voices of a piano with four works for piano and orchestra, almost four concertos. Pierre-Laurent Aimard was pianist in three and merely…